Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent weeks, however, both sides have increased the frequency and ingenuity of their initiatives. Nixon's proposal to have all prisoners interned in neutral Sweden for the duration has apparently come to nothing. But Hanoi has seemed to crack open a few doors toward broader negotiation, although the Communists will probably let serious initiatives wait until the U.S. withdrawal proceeds still further and the South Vietnamese elections approach next fall. By then, American bargaining leverage will be diminished, and there may be signs of new political alignments in Saigon more amenable to making concessions that could bring peace...
...nation's environmentalist lobby, refreshed by its success, had turned to other concerns. So had the Boeing Company. After the Senate abruptly voted down further funds for development of the supersonic transport in March, Boeing laid off more than 5,000 workers, dispersed its crack team of SST designers and engineers, and closed down the Seattle factory where for four years it had been creating a supersonic prototype...
BOOM! sounded the cannons. Crack! went the rifles. As the smoke settled over the calm greensward of New Market, Va., a ragged gray line of ersatz Confederates marched on the Yankee guns. In accordance with the script, the Bluebellies died in a heap of splendid tragedy. As one mock Union soldier put it: "I'm a Confederate. But there weren't enough real Yankees to man the cannon...
...baby-burn writing. Unlike apocalyptic novelists, Gaines does not make the revolution happen by surreal rhetoric. He simply watches, a patient artist, a patient man, and it happens for him. When Jane, disobedient at last, walks past her plantation owner to take part in a demonstration, a code goes crack, as surely, as naturally as a root pushing up through concrete. · Melvin Maddocks
...rest of the decade. Dorothy Collins stands out on the album as the finest voice in the company, but there are no really bad voices except that of Yvonne De Carlo, who has one tremendous song called "I'm Still Here" which Elaine Stritch should get a crack at sometime...